[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.

First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.

The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.

I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!

Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

This war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything.

I do believe that the Iranians are a good neighbour. The Iranians have supported the people of Yemen.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

A satisfactory translation is not always possible, but a good translator is never satisfied with it. It can usually be improved. (Newmark)

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires.

Never argue, repeat your assertion.

I'm the queen of the nerds.

When it is not possible to reason with holy warriors, it is necessary to immobilize them or crush them.

The street is the river of life of the city, the place where we come together, the pathway to the center.